About the Image(s)

In a tough weather year this rose bush has continued to put out photogenic blossoms into November. The dark red outlines of the petal shapes, contrasting soft yellow colors, and our Digital Dialogue schedule suggested a monochrome treatment. Mounted in a small glass vase on a white table next to a north window, shot with Canon 90D, Tamron 90mm macro lens, f/6.3, 1/100s, ISO 1000. Original 1 is the camera's dng file processed in LR's Adobe Color preset. After cropping, global exposure and texture adjustments, converted to monochrome with LR's B&W Red Filter preset. To darken the white table background I tried out LR's new Brush and Masking tool: Select Subject instantly created selection of the flower, Invert isolated the table, the exposure slider in the selective adjustment panel produced the final image.